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Suspicions were also turned on Victor de Vernisset, a poet of the school of Canalis, whose passion for Madame Schontz was desperate; but the poet accused Stidmann, a young sculptor, of being his fortune rival. This artist, a charming lad, worked for jewellers, for manufacturers in bronze and silver-smiths; he longed to be another Benvenuto Cellini.
These living advertisements, these perambulating articles, soon set up Madame Schontz as the most agreeable woman to be found in the borderland which separates the thirteenth arrondissement from the twelve others.
Fabien is to be appointed chief-justice at once, and officer of the Legion of honor after one year's service." "I shall make myself devote," said Madame Schontz, accenting that speech in a manner which obtained a nod of approbation from Maxime. "Priests can do more than even we," he replied sententiously. "Ah! can they?" said Madame Schontz.
In the middle of December, Madame Schontz, who took a real interest in Etienne, sent to beg him to call on her one morning on business. "My dear fellow, you have a chance of marrying." "I can marry very often, happily, my dear." "When I say marrying, I mean marrying well. You have no prejudices: I need not mince matters.
"Here you are, sir," said a porter from the coach office, setting down two huge hampers in the ante-room. "Carriage paid. Please to sign my book." "Carriage paid!" cried Madame Schontz. "It must have come from Sancerre." "Yes, madame," said the porter. "Your Tenth Muse is a remarkably intelligent woman," said the courtesan, opening one of the hampers, while Lousteau was writing his name.
And he called out his coachman to drive at top speed to the rue de la Bruyere. Madame Schontz had given precise directions; monsieur could enter as master with the fullest understanding of madame; but, warned by the noise of monsieur's arrival, madame had so arranged that the sound of her dressing-door closing as women's doors do close when they are surprised, was to reach monsieur's ears.
He is a Duke of the first water. He is high-minded, as noble and great as Louis XIV. and Napoleon rolled into one, though he is a dwarf. Besides, I have done for him what la Schontz did for Rochefide; by taking my advice he has made two millions. "Now, listen to me, old popgun.
The choice escaped all public suspicion by its very improbability. Madame Schontz intoxicated Fabien with smiles given secretly, with little scenes played on the threshold when she bade him good-night, if Monsieur de Rochefide stayed behind.
Madame Schontz, who could distance, as she said, by three blagues the wit of those ladies, said to them one night at a supper given by Nathan to Florine, after recounting her fortune and her success, "Do as much yourselves!" a speech which remained in their memory.
In the course of three evenings Madame Schontz read Fabien like a book and said to herself, "If Couture does not suit me, I am certain of saddling that one. My future can go on two legs now." This queer fellow whom everybody laughed at was really the chosen one, chosen, however, with an intention which made such preference insulting.
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